The present moment is fused with uncertainty.

I have blind spots, areas where my knowledge is less than perfect. I’m not completely unbiased. There are areas of life in which I’m ignorant. I may be operating counter to my goals and not even be aware of it. Some areas of my life seem to be functioning positively and some not so much. Maybe I’m confused and in those areas I fell good about, I’m deluding myself or hiding the truth or missing the obvious.

It is a challenge being a human.

Hope you have an awesome day!

This journal is meant as a reminder toencourage my future self.Where I work on my mental fitness and ‘adulting’. A reminder to him to operate in the world with love and compassion and some tips put together in a moment of clarity to help him when he is less clear and caught up in stuff the he can’t control. Continue the conversation anytime:will@kestrelcreek.com.

Nobody hears our inner dialog (thankfully). We justify all my actions based on the situations we're in. This format a feeling of rightness or at least an excuse for our behavior. But this not the same curtsy we grant others. We feel others do things because of their character, because of who they are.

This journal is meant as a reminder toencourage my future self.Where I work on my mental fitness and ‘adulting’. A reminder to him to operate in the world with love and compassion and some tips put together in a moment of clarity to help him when he is less clear and caught up in stuff the he can’t control. Continue the conversation anytime:will@kestrelcreek.com.

Trimming those current habits that are not working to move me forward.

Freeing myself for Deep Work, FOCUSING on what is in front of me. The opportunity costs are too high to make new resolutions. I’ll let this year be a year where I consolidate my gains.

Look to depth not breadth.

Review and reevaluate later.

Hope you have an awesome day!

This journal is meant as a reminder toencourage my future self.Where I work on my mental fitness and ‘adulting’. A reminder to him to operate in the world with love and compassion and some tips put together in a moment of clarity to help him when he is less clear and caught up in stuff the he can’t control. Continue the conversation anytime:will@kestrelcreek.com.

The important thing to remember is that a few small inputs will produce a majority of your results.

Ask what...

20% of your possessions do you get the most out of?

20% of your time spent gives you the most happiness?

20% of the people you like to spend the most time with?

20% of clothes do you wear most of the time?

20% of the food and exercise you do that produces the most results?

20% of your money provides the most value

20% of tasks you do are the most efficient

It is hard in a relationship if to much of this 20% doesn’t align. Life becomes managing the 80%.

Hope you have an awesome day!

This journal is meant as a reminder toencourage my future self.Where I work on my mental fitness and ‘adulting’. A reminder to him to operate in the world with love and compassion and some tips put together in a moment of clarity to help him when he is less clear and caught up in stuff the he can’t control. Continue the conversation anytime:will@kestrelcreek.com.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.

From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. That is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates.

— ― Epictetus (From Manual 51)

This is how I want to discipline myself. I have the tools, what am I waiting for?

Hope you have an awesome day!

This journal is meant as a reminder toencourage my future self.Where I work on my mental fitness and ‘adulting’. A reminder to him to operate in the world with love and compassion and some tips put together in a moment of clarity to help him when he is less clear and caught up in stuff the he can’t control. Continue the conversation anytime:will@kestrelcreek.com.

"The practice of lojong is a life-long journey, … look at each day as a practice period, with a beginning and an end. So every morning you take a fresh start, and every evening you have a chance appraise how you have done.” Judy Lief

This journal is meant as a reminder to my future self. A reminder to him to operate in the world with love and compassion and some tips put together in a moment of clarity to help him when he is less clear and caught up in stuff the he can’t control. Continue the conversation anytime:will@kestrelcreek.com.

Hupomnemata is in my view the equivalent of Zettelkasten from ancient greek culture. Maybe a little less structured, maybe of a more philosophical sense but the same in a few important ways.

The Hupomnemata was really a practice of writing what was read and heard.

The Hupomnemata is translated as notebook.

The Hupomnemata is self directed rather than other directed.

The Hupomnemata is written to make the author more skilled in life.

The Hupomnemata doesn’t contain journal type reflections.

The Hupomnemata is used to make the author a better person

It is surprising that this technique of writing notes has such a long history. We’re lucky to rediscover this and have a few people dive into this. I feel gratitude that I can stand on their shoulders and see where to go. I know, a poor metaphor. I’m closer to the idiot kid, kicking and screaming, as those that are leading point the way.

103 note in my Zettelkasten. Just a baby. Excited every time I use it.

This journal is meant as a reminder to my future self. A reminder to him to operate in the world with love and compassion and some tips put together in a moment of clarity to help him when he is less clear and caught up in stuff the he can’t control. Continue the conversation anytime:will@kestrelcreek.com.